{"id":6769,"date":"2020-10-22T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:00:21","slug":"bolivia-election-2020-vargas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this video, we speak with journalist Ollie Vargas who has been reporting on the ground in Bolivia. Vargas explains what has occurred over the past year since the US-backed coup outed former president Evo Morales of MAS or the Movement Toward Socialism. On October 18, 2020, the MAS won the election with the landslide victory for candidate Luis Arce. Ollie explains how the indigenous people have suffered under the coup regime the past year and what challenges are ahead.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rdJMdp9U18?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT\u00a0OLLIE VARGAS<\/h2>\n<p><b>Ollie Vargas<\/b>\u00a0is a Bolivian reporter, covering the situation in the country following the coup. Other work can be found at\u00a0<em>Mintpress News<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Grayzone<\/em>,\u00a0<em>teleSUR English<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Radio Kawsachun Coca<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, we speak with journalist Ollie Vargas who has been reporting on the ground in Bolivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup - acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/politics\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/acTVism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-22T10:00:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"atv_admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@acTVismMunich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@acTVismMunich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"atv_admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"atv_admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bc2c8684912eb2289fe0009f5ca451d6\"},\"headline\":\"Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-22T10:00:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":438,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"LATEST\",\"OUR CONTENT\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/\",\"name\":\"Bolivia Election 2020: Socialist Victory one Year After US-backed Coup\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.actvism.org\\\/politics\\\/bolivia-election-2020-vargas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-22T10:00:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"In this video, we speak with journalist Ollie Vargas who has been reporting on the ground in Bolivia. 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